Plate for boiler-holes in cooking-stoves



2 Sheets-Sheet 1. G. E. WARING.

Cooking Stove. v No. 5,955.- Patented Dec. 5, 1848.

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G. E. WARING.

Cooking Stove.

No. 5,955. Paten ted Dec. 5, 1848.

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GEO. E. WARING, or STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT."

PLATE FOR BOILER-HOLES IN cooKI vG-s'rovns,

Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,955, dated December 5, 18 48. I I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE E. WVARING, of Stamford, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Top and Boiler-Holes of Cooking-Stoves, and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the principle or character which distinguishes it from all other things before known and of the manner of making, constructing, and using the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents the top of a cooking stove with four small boiler holes; Fig. 2, the same with one of the said holes enlarged; Fig. 8, the same, with the enlarged hole put on the opposite side; and Fig. 4, the same with the front holes opened into one for a long boiler.

The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

Cooking stoves are generally made with two small boiler holes towardthe back and a large hole in front for a long boiler, but

which by means of a shifting'center piece can be divided into two small circular boiler holes. Contracting rings have also been adapted to boiler holes for the purpose of reducing their diameter. j

The object of my nvention is so to arrange front, as to adapt it either to a longboiler, to two small round boilers, or to one large and one small round boiler, to'be reversed at pleasure to either side; and to the accomplishment of these ends the nature of my invention consists first in making the movable center division piece, heretofore used simply to divide the long hole into two circular ones, apart of a ring which fits one end of the long boiler hole, the "division part being on one side of the central line, by means of which the long hole is divided into two circular holes, one large and the other small, so that by reversing this the large hole can be placed on either side at pleasure. And my invention also consists in the employment of a contracting rlng 1n combination with the division piece by means of which combination the long boiler hole can be so altered as to make two small circular holes, or one small and one large to be reversed to either side at pleasure, the

large hole by this means being of greater .long

diameter than half the length of the long boiler hole.

In the accompanying drawings (a) rep- 7 resents the top plate of a cooking stove, and

(b, b) the two rear boilerholes, and the long boiler hole in front, made with recesses and flanges (d, d) in the usual man- .ner to sustain the boilers and the division piece (6) which is made part of acontracting ring (f). The division piece instead of being in the middle of the long boiler hole is on one side thereof to form a hole (g) on one side of greater diameter than half the length of the long boiler hole. 7

By reversing this united division piece and contracting ring the large hole can be shlfted from one side to the other, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3; and the large round hole to have a small round one on'one side and a large one on the other, which can be reversed from one side to the other, the-united division piece and contracting ring being so adapted to the flanges and recesses of the hole as to admit. of being reversed. And that finally it can be varied to have two small circular holes in front.

It will be seen that the dlvision piece and ciple of my invention. I am aware that the contracting ring which I have described as long boiler hole of a'cooking stove has heretofore been so formed that it could be contracted to one large circular hole of greater diameter than half the length of the long hole, but this has been done by two half moons, as they are termed, that contract thelong hole into a circular one only, but by lan I am enabled to retain a small circular hole by the. side of the large one and thereby obtain the advantage of this additional hole, which at the same time, by the combination ofthe contracting ring I am enabled to alter the stove to four small circular holes.

I do not therefore claim as my invention simply the use of a division piece in the middle of the long boiler hole to form two circular holes therein, nor; do I claim sepalong boiler hole into two, one small and one large, the large one being of greater diamlJ eter than could be formed with the usual division piece in the middle, as described. GEO. EVWARING. Witnesses:

JOHN W. HARMs, WILLIAM T. MINOR. 1 

